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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






2. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






3. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






4. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






5. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






6. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






7. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






8. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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9. Wide Range Achievement Test






10. Whole body learning






11. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






12. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






13. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






14. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






15. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






16. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






17. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






18. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






19. Closed syllable






20. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






21. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






22. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






23. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






24. r-controlled syllable






25. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






26. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






27. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






28. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






29. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






30. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






31. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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32. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






33. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






34. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






35. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






36. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






37. State Board of Eduation






38. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






39. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






40. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






41. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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42. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






43. English as a second language






44. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






45. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






46. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






47. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






48. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






49. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






50. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)







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